How Being a Writer Helped Me Navigate the American Health Insurance System—and Get My Hands on “Liquid Gold”
On December 22nd, 2015, after a couple years of unexplained and fleeting on-and-off symptoms, I woke up with a fever, my joints aflame, the air on my skin feeling like shards of glass. Over the next few months my life
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Chronic illness onset
In December 2015, the author experienced severe symptoms including fever, joint pain, brain fog, and headaches that made reading difficult.
These symptoms forced them to quit their job teaching fiction writing in prison and abandon creative work.
Over months, their condition worsened, requiring visits to multiple healthcare providers such as medical doctors, acupuncturists, lymphatic masseuses, Chinese medicine doctors, and a psychic.
The author gained significant weight due to high-dose steroids and opioid-induced sugar cravings, becoming unrecognizable to others while their body constantly signaled distress.
Despite this, they felt invisible in the world, struggling to understand what their body needed.
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